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  1. Re:Graphics Silicon by itomato · · Score: 2, Informative · on Is the Game Finally up for SGI?

    Silicon Graphics 'graphics' engineers are now nVidia.

    Commodity PC hardware ain't gonna cut it.

    http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp
    http://www.matrox.com/
    http://www.tridentmicro.com/

    have died at the hands of
    http://www.leadtek.com/ (foxconn)
    http://www.nvidia.com/
    http://www.ati.com/

    SGI's fu is weak besides..

  2. Re:What would excite me is a lower price by shepd · · Score: 1 · on High End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards

    >No one is going to produce cards with older technology when they can use that manufacturing capacity to build other, newer, more profitable cards.

    Too bad nobody told that to Trident!

  3. Trident.com unreachable by snake_dad · · Score: 2 · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86
    I'm not sure if this is the Trident corporation website, but I cannot reach it at this moment.

    Please tell me that this is just slashdotting, and not some fanatic opensource lunatic hacking their website in response to this... Because the latter would be a real pathetic response.

    A couple of (preview) minutes later: hey, it's back. However it's not the same Trident corporation. This seems the link to the 'right' Trident. Hmm.. two choices: cancel this post, or post it in the hope that it may keep some poor misguided fanatic from doing something stupid....

  4. Wanted: Windows driver programmers only? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86
    Browse Trident Employment Opportunities .

    Note engineer/programmer positions requiring driver level skill sets specific to Microsoft operating systems.

    Well, one might hope they already have staff inhouse up to speed on X Free86.

    Any volunteers willing to apply and cause change from within?

  5. Here's one helpful arguement by rkent · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

    there are a lot of good arguments to be made for keeping this information open to the public.

    Very true. And since the contact address given was public_relations@tridentmicro.com, I chose a PR-related arguement: first of all, all open source users (growing in number!) will have to avoid this new chipset, since it won't be supported. But more importantly, we'll remember Trident's decision and be less likely to support them in the future. Here's the letter I sent to that address; feel free use it as an inspiration for a note (not flame) of your own:

    Hi -

    I recently learned that Trident has decided not to provide chipset
    documentation for the CyberBladeXP chipset to open source developers.
    The effect of this decision is that Trident customers who choose to use
    open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD with their computers
    will not enjoy the full functionality of their CyberBladeXP video
    systems. In fact, the systems may not work at all.

    Besides being rude and alienating to your own customers, this news of
    these non-functioning systems will spread by word of mouth, and people
    will avoid Trident chipsets intentionally. At first, it will only be
    certain chipsets that they try to avoid. But, as I'm sure you know, once
    a company's name has been associated with a poor product, it becomes
    difficult to trust that company for other products, as well.

    In short, I'm not sure if I would even have bought a CyberBladeXP chip
    from any vendor. But now that I know it won't work on my system, I will
    be sure to avoid it. And now that I know Trident is upsupportive of my
    software, I will probably have to avoid your products altogether in the
    future.

    Please reconsider your decision about the chipset documentation.

    Sincerely,
    [my name was here, put in yours]

  6. Re:No need to write to Trident by emissary47 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

    hmh, i just read the press page at trident,
    it seems that hp,ibm,acer want to use their XP cards in notebooks:

    Trident's CyberBlade XP Selected For HP Pavilion Notebooks
    Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 Wins in IBM's
    ThinkPad i Series 1200+1300
    ACER Selects Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 For TravelMate 350 Notebook

  7. Re:No need to write to Trident by emissary47 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

    hmh, i just read the press page at trident,
    it seems that hp,ibm,acer want to use their XP cards in notebooks:

    Trident's CyberBlade XP Selected For HP Pavilion Notebooks
    Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 Wins in IBM's
    ThinkPad i Series 1200+1300
    ACER Selects Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 For TravelMate 350 Notebook

  8. Re:No need to write to Trident by emissary47 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

    hmh, i just read the press page at trident,
    it seems that hp,ibm,acer want to use their XP cards in notebooks:

    Trident's CyberBlade XP Selected For HP Pavilion Notebooks
    Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 Wins in IBM's
    ThinkPad i Series 1200+1300
    ACER Selects Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 For TravelMate 350 Notebook

  9. Re:No need to write to Trident by emissary47 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

    hmh, i just read the press page at trident,
    it seems that hp,ibm,acer want to use their XP cards in notebooks:

    Trident's CyberBlade XP Selected For HP Pavilion Notebooks
    Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 Wins in IBM's
    ThinkPad i Series 1200+1300
    ACER Selects Trident and ALi's CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1 For TravelMate 350 Notebook

  10. Trident�s management team is rich ... by Fishstick · · Score: 2 · on Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86
    ...in experience, and includes executives from a number of leading companies:

    answer your question?

  11. Trident Display Drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99?

    Go here for display drivers for Win9x, Win2K, and XFree86:

    http://www.tridentmicro.com/htm l/driver/blade3d.htm

    Please: Can someone confirm that these work under Windows?

    • Happy Hacking
    • Mike
  12. It's a good card by mmontour · · Score: 1 · on Aureal to release Linux drivers/source code

    Don't complain - the Hoontech 4DWave is a good card, and is the preferred card for ALSA.

    Hoontech's card uses two digital chips: The Trident Microsystems
    4DWave-NX and the Sigmatel STAC9708.
    Programming information is available for these chips, in the datasheet for the STAC9708 and here for the 4DWave.

    p.s. If you don't like Hoontech, other manufacturers also have 4DWave-NX cards.